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...The President will suffer a very violent death of his own before this month is over, and probably not alone when it happens.

And to throw a Rasputinesque twist to this prediction: if a foreign terrorist kills him the United States will last forever; if an American murders him the United States will die with him.
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I already live in a haunted house now. For a few years, I'd slept on the previous owner's bedframe and box springs (with my own mattress atop it). I've seen her ghost a few times. Death is but a door.
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Did this tonight from a story idea I posted on this Livejournal a short time back.



What everything on the chart means.
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Posted Here Because It Times Out Or Glitches When I Try To Watch It At CBS.Com ).

PS: When I attempted to establish a CBS.COM account using my Facebook ID, I found out that I already had an account with there, and revived it. Unfortunately, I can't link to it, but if you want to friend me there just look for sbierce@hotmail.com in the Friend Search function.
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The only once-and-for-all resolution in politics is death, and there has been so much of that lately that any talk of war should either be silenced or it risks being followed up with actual bloodshed. We're in the same place now that our nation was in before Ruby Ridge, David Koresh, Columbine High School, and the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. What's so funny about wanting law and order, established justice, ensured domestic tranquility, promoted general welfare, the blessings of liberty and some professional integrity?
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Update: The Knoxville Center Mall Shooting...and the legal controversy being generated.

Practical upshot: an alleged pillar of the alleged community was there carrying his alleged pistol. In a building where the law says only law enforcement officers are allowed to be armed!
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About a Recent Civil War Battle Re-Enactment
About Today's Homocide, at a Shopping Mall where I happen to visit about once a month or so. They have two okay game stores (CM & Sci-Fi City).
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I feel a bizarre twinge of synchronicital rightness about not so much the what as the when and the why.

This past week, PBS aired the last episode of Niall Ferguson's documentary series War of the World, about the violence of the past century, its causes, and what it means about human nature. The parts about the ethnic wars in the former Yugoslavia were particularly chilling to me...because I can see how such things could happen even in America--especially now, as we're in tough economic times, with a government people are beginning to lose faith in, and an election cycle that promises to polarize this country along ethnic lines.

The event Ferguson used to illustrate what happened cuts to the core of human nature. Not for weak stomachs. )

This scene was repeated dozens of times over the course of the war. People were forced to choose between self-preservation and their fellow man, and their fellow man would lose again and again.

I can very easily imagine this happening here in this century. AND I WANT SOMEBODY TO PROVE ME WRONG.

FP

Bah

Sep. 20th, 2006 11:48 pm
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Something happened to me today that I can't talk about, and will affect me a fortnight from now, and I'm really bummed about. Phooey.

If any of you were following the Dandridge Baseball Park Homocides, the current picture is that the man who brought the gun also died, so there won't necessarily be a trial. Which I guess I can "live with".

But I'm sure now municipalities all over America--and maybe elsewhere--will soon clamor for more security at Little League ballparks. No matter that the circumstances of this case would not support such a measure...but the paranoia and hysteria will drive the argument through. Will we, as a society, bear this cost or force future generations out of the parks? Food for thought.

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